Small joys
Sep. 6th, 2006 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartOur school library is making a sale as they don't have enough room for new books. So they give away the old ones that hadn't been read for years for symbolic sums.
I got myself a German Ramayana version yesterday. I already had one in Hungarian - not a real translation, either of them, more telling the original legends for the modern reader (European) reader - but I just had to buy this one because of the gorgeous illustrations. They are a thing of beauty. And I got the book for what would be 15 Eurocents.
It smells a bit muffy, perhaps because it had been kept in the cellar or whatnot. But I have scented candles in my book-case, so the strange smell will go away eventually, leaving all the undisturbed beauty for me to admire.
I got myself a German Ramayana version yesterday. I already had one in Hungarian - not a real translation, either of them, more telling the original legends for the modern reader (European) reader - but I just had to buy this one because of the gorgeous illustrations. They are a thing of beauty. And I got the book for what would be 15 Eurocents.
It smells a bit muffy, perhaps because it had been kept in the cellar or whatnot. But I have scented candles in my book-case, so the strange smell will go away eventually, leaving all the undisturbed beauty for me to admire.
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Date: 2006-09-07 03:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-11 02:09 pm (UTC)Some years ago, I bought a great book from Reader's Digest, about Ancient Mexico. In the middle, they have a fold-out picture about the reconstructed possible view of Tenochtitlan - it must have been absolutely stunning in its heyday. I intend to use it as inspiration for one of my Original Trek novels.